GeForce 9600 GSO vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (84W vs 95W)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 384GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GSO
+37%
264
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Apr 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
384MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
12
SM Count
8
96
Shading Units
64
48
TMUs
32
12
ROPs
16
48 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
26.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
264.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
84W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
